On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:22:11AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:21:29PM +0100, Fran?ois-Xavier Coudert wrote: > > > The newest version of mpfr will build a shared library. > > > In fact, we should move to using the newest version, > > > but I think some/many people would object to having two > > > external library dependencies. > > > > What advantages have the newest version? And (sorry for the obvious > > question) why isn't it kept in sync with gmp? > > > > I don't know the history/reason for the split. GMP 4.x > includes essentially mpfr 2.0.1, which was released in > May 2002. There have been 6 newer releases of mpfr > since that time. There are literally hundreds of bug > fixes, new features, and speed improvements. For > gfortran, there is a new mpfr_subnormalize function. > This would allow me to replace a homegrown hack that > Tobi and I developed for dealing with subnormal numbers. > > For more info on mpfr versions, check > http://www.mpfr.org/download.html
Would it be possible to replace gmp with mpfr entirely? Or do we use gmp functionality that isn't found in mpfr? -- Janne Blomqvist
